Articles by Austin King
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Testing Your Native Android App
It’s an interesting time to be a web developer! For years Apps have been eating the web and now we are seeing the Web eat the OS. Mozilla is pushing for a world where you can write standards-based, Open Web Apps. These apps should install as native apps and just work, regardless of the platform. […]
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Localization in Action, part 3 of 3 – A Node.js holiday season, part 11
This is episode 11, out of a total 12, in the A Node.JS Holiday Season series from Mozilla’s Identity team. It’s the last part about localization, hopefully making you feel all ready to handle that now! Using Our Strings So first we added the i18n-abide module to our code, then our Localization (L10n) team did […]
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Localization community, tools & process, part 2 of 3 – A Node.js holiday season, part 10
This is episode 10, out of a total 12, in the A Node.JS Holiday Season series from Mozilla’s Identity team. Let’s talk some more localization! In our previous post “How to Localize Your Node.js service”, we learned how to add i18n-abide to our code. We wrapped strings in both templates and JavaScript files. As developers, […]
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Localize Your Node.js Service, part 1 of 3 – A Node.js holiday season, part 9
This is episode 9, out of a total 12, in the A Node.JS Holiday Season series from Mozilla’s Identity team. Now it’s time to delve into localization! Did you know that Mozilla’s products and services are localized into into as many as 90 languages? The following are just a few examples of localization: Text translated […]
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Screencast: BrowserID login flow on OpenPhoto.me
BrowserID is an initiative to provide the web with a better way to sign in. The web is a connected collection of resources and you should not have to have a user name and password for each of them when you could use the web instead. Today we show you a screencast of how easy […]
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XHR progress and rich file upload feedback
This demo is by Olli Pettay (smaug) with help from Austin King. A common limitation on the web today has been a rich file upload widget for web applications. Many sites use Flash or a desktop helper applications to improve the experience of uploading files. Firefox 3.5 bridges one of these gaps allowing a better […]
